Drama Festival.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 4

Drama Festival.

Xhe annual festival of the Hawke's Bay Drama League takes place on Monday, August 16, and Tuesday, August 17, and the box plan will open at Fail's next Wednesday, Prophet and Profit. Such things do happen eometimes. The hopeful subscribed to the latest Tasmanian "consultation" who adopted the nom-de-loterxe of ''First Prize" proved a good prophet, for he actually did draw the £12,000 uward. Ship Movements. The R.M.s. Rotorua, which ieft Auckland for London on July 13, arrived at Panama on the morning oi August 4. The Rangitane, which leil London on June 22, arrived at Colon yesterday morning. carphones in Church. For the benefit of the hard of hearing a set of ten earphones wili shortly oe installed in JSt. David's Presbyterian ^nurch, Auckland. The Rev. W. B. ijiack stated at the annual meeting oi the church that the earphones, winch will be individually adjustable, were available through the generosiy of members of the congregation. Larger population. "A nefc annual immigration of 10,000 would enable us to reach the population tuark set by the Five Million Club in about 345 yearB," said ProfeBsor H. Belshaw in an address to members of the Auckland branch of the Economic ■society of Australia and New Zealand. 'This is even if present population remained stable, and the immigrants succeeded in reproducing themselves." tncreased Hotel Tariffs. 1 A forecast of probable increases in hotel tariffs for the coming season is shown in data recently collected by the Automobile Association (Auckland) for the revision oi its tourist guide. An official of the association has visited practicaily every hotel m the North lsiand, and he gathered the impression that a number of accommodation houses will add 10 per cent to their rates, principally because of increased cost of i'oodstutfs and higher wages. The Small Differencesu "Anyone who visits a country for the tirs't time notices particularly the small differencos," said Professor J. Rutherford, of Auckland University College, at a farewell luncheon given in his honour by the Royal Empire Society. When I came to the Dominion about three and a-hali years ago I noticed the small annoyances, such as the fact that cigarettes cost more, pints of beer were smaller and the postmen delivered letters to a box about 30 yards down the drive." Professor Rutherford added that n couutry was appreciated properly only after one had become accliiuatised. Wlien he reached England he doubtless would consider hnnself a New Zealander and would be given to ooasting about the Dominion's achievements. .